Escritas — Poems List

Martin Luther King Jr

When you are right you

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

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Damon Runyon

I long ago came to

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.

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J. K. Rowling

It takes a great deal

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.

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Katharn Hepburn

It is the ordinary woman

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

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Sara Teasdale

I make the most of

I make the most of all that comes,

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Theodore Roosevelt

The best executive is one

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn

It is not because the

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions— especially selfish ones.

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Alexandre Dumas

Until divinity decides to reveal

Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

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Theodore Roosevelt

The great virtue of my

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

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Ralph W. Sockman

The test of courage comes

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

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Sir Walter Scott

Too much rest is rust.

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Mariah Carey

I try and try to

I try and try to deny that I need you but still you remain on my mind.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A conservative is a man

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.

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William Punshon

Cowardice asks: Is it safe?

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

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Robert Louis Stevenson

We are all travelers in

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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Albert Camus

There are always reasons for

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

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Kevin Rooney

I have one of those

I have one of those real old American built cars. The kind that just PUNCHES through accidents.

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Francis Bacon

If a man will begin

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

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François de La Rochefoucauld

Absence diminishes small loves and

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

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Winston Churchill

Golf is a game whose

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose.

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Will Rogers

People love high ideals, but

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible.

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Bias

Do not speak quickly; it

Do not speak quickly; it is a sign of insanity.

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Abraham Lincoln

Common looking people are the

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Supreme happiness will be the

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

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